Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] Enable "strip" install option handling for libraries

[Albert Antony <albert@newtec.dk>]

Hi Juergen,

I agree with everything you say there. On our side, what the few
unstripped binaries help us avoid is re-creating a matching rootfs
(which as you know can take anywhere from a few seconds to a few
hours). Since the slight extra storage space is not an issue on our
target platform, unstripped application-specific binaries with
in-target gdb work out to be a simple solution for our needs.

But of course you guys are way more experienced with build systems :)
If you see our requirement as one-off and not in line with the
customary approach, then we don't have to merge the patch in. I just
thought it was better to let the user have a say in the
stripped-vs-unstripped install, with the default of course being a
stripped install.

Cheers,
Albert.

On 22 July 2015 at 11:29, Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
> On Wednesday 22 July 2015 10:31:45 Albert Antony wrote:
>> I am aware of the root-debug option, and indeed that is what we use
>> for in-house debugging. But we would like to be able to debug a target
>> that is out in the field, with only ssh access available to it. Having
>> an unstripped version of the application of interest makes the
>> debugging a lot easier in this case.
>
> Hmm, PTXdist is a tool which supports exactly this use case. You still can
> debug your target remotely even if it is already in the field.
>
> But you rely on the root filesystem content in the target in the field is
> exactly the one which PTXdist has created (and can re-create on demand at any
> point of time).
>
> Then you can run the 'gdbserver' on your target in the field, start your
> debugger locally and point it to the local "root-debug" directory. That's all.
> Everything runs on your target in the field, but the debugger still finds all
> relevant debug info locally on your host. There is no need for debug infos at
> the target side.
>
> Regards,
> Juergen
>
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